Posts Tagged ‘resources’
Nice resources for atomic bonding
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: October 6, 2009
A rather unorthodox approach to revising atomic bonding:
It dovetails nicely with one of the many free resources from absorblearning – in this case an animation of an oxygen atom bonding (covalently) with two hydrogen atoms to form a water molecule.
There are over 100 other free resources like this from the same [...]
Junior Cert Physics Resources
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 7, 2009
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I have tended to neglect the Junior Cert end of thephysicsteacher.ie
Hopefully this has now been rectified. Or at any rate it’s a start.
The interactive links were there already but not easily accessable, and were all on one long page.
The section which took longest to prepare was the ‘Tips for Teachers’ section. Hopefully this will prove [...]
‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’ online science game
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 20, 2009
Wonderful online science game - who knew learning could be fun?
Bring the class down to the computer lab and have them play in teams of mixed ability. Millionaires get no homework.
But watch out – it’s a little addictive.
Who wants to be a millionaire?
These and more from Jefferson Lab.
Dissection – great fun entirely
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 4, 2009
I have been experiencing a renaissance in my teaching life ever since I decided to embrace my ignorance on all issues biological (still can’t learn to love Chemistry unfortunately, but there may still be time).
We did heart dissections the other day.
I spent an evening searching for related videos on youtube. I am a firm advocate of [...]
Particle Physics and the LHC: some useful resources
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 3, 2008
The Large Hardon Collider is due to be turned on this day next week (Wednesday, 10th of September), so it’s not a bad time to put together some useful resources to show to the troops to give them some idea of what it’s all about.
At just under 5 minutes, the Large Hadron Rap isn’t a [...]
Some cool science resources
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: July 15, 2008
Just got back from wonderful New Zealand yesterday and came across some of these impressive deals.
Digital calipers from aldi for €10, available from Sunday 13th (checkout blowtorch available also for €10). Why would anyone use the old-fashioned vernier calipers when you these cut out all the confusion. Ideal for ‘measuring the resistivity of wire’ experiment.
Dynamo torches [...]
Excellent resource for Power points
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 21, 2008
I don’t tend to use Power-Point much. ‘Not sure why; guess I can never stay still long enough to give a formal-type lesson. I did however use Education Using PowerPoint a few years back and was very impressed. It’s a very extensive set of resources, put together and managed by Will Richards. A complete set (including [...]
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